[lurk]

You want to see insanely driven parents, enter the world of high school sports.

[Col Frank Slade]

Or Little League.

[Alberta's Child]

I gave up coaching Little League because I could see that the parental involvement had gotten out of hand.

I wish I had the knowledge back then that Mike Matheny had when he wrote this "open letter to Little League parents," and the guts to lay it out there for the parents of my team's players:

Letter to Parents of Little Leaguers

[wally_bert]

Sometimes I catch part of the local sports wacko talk show as I flip to something else worth listening to. What times I listen, it is sad to hear all these guys call up and obsess to apparently no end about some junior high or high school player at some nowhere school.

Going to some sports type bars every once in a great while with friends it is sad and funny at the same time seeing so many older fat and a few morbidly obese guys go bananas over every play and replay. I am hardly the picture of slim and trim but am working on it but I don’t go bonkers like that since sports means nothing to me.